Ignaz Moscheles

Isaac Ignaz Moscheles was a Bohemian piano virtuoso and composer. He was based initially in London and later in Leipzig, where he joined his friend and sometime pupil Felix Mendelssohn as professor of piano in the Conservatory.

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Ignaz Moscheles was a significant figure in 19th-century music, particularly as an influential teacher and a composer whose works were widely published. According to the Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, with a Bibliography of English Writings on Music (1886), the famous Viennese publishing house founded by Domenico Artaria issued many of Moscheles’s principal works, alongside those of Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven. Moscheles’s pedagogical impact is evident through his notable pupils. Joseph Ascher, a pianist and composer of popular salon music, studied with Moscheles in London and Leipzig in 1846, as recorded in A Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (1900). The same 1900 dictionary notes that Woldemar Bargiel, who later became a professor at the Royal Hochschule in Berlin, was also a pupil of Moscheles at the Leipzig Conservatory in 1846. Other students included Thomas Julian Adams, an English composer and conductor who studied under Moscheles and worked to introduce good orchestral music in various English and Scottish towns, according to the 1886 dictionary. Walter Bache, an excellent pianist and ardent disciple of Liszt, also studied with Moscheles at Leipzig between 1858 and 1861, as did Horton Claridge Allison, who received instruction from Moscheles at the Leipzig Conservatory from 1862 to 1865 and gained the first prize for general proficiency there in 1865.